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Finally, this has happened. At the 2016 Olympics, Nijat Rahimov of "Kazakhstan" (in parenthesis because he's switched his nationality all over the place and the Kazakhs are known for buying weightlifters from China, Russia, etc...) won the 77kg weightlifting gold medal. He was 15kg behind than 2012 Olympic Champion Lu Xiaojun in the snatch but defeated Lu by lower bodyweight as he clean and jerked 214kg, which is a whopping 4kg over the 15 year old standing World record. Lu Xiaojun's second Olympic gold became silver. Mohammed Ehab of Egypt won bronze, and Egypt immediately accused Rahimov of being a drug cheat, saying there was no way an adult professional lifter could improve that much that quickly (he was pinned by 211kg the year before). But there were better reasons. Nijat Rahimov was an Azeri lifter and had already been sanctioned for illegal substance use on team Azerbaijan. As a matter of fact, the Azeri team had suffered back-to-back team bans for drug use. And Rahimov was then transferred to Kazakhstan, a country that has had to return every Olympic medal in weightlifting since 2008 due to retrospective testing and is also serving a drug-related team ban. Kazakhstan has been found guilty of over 130 drug infractions for the weightlifters in its country. And under these circumstances, many in the weightlifting world, even those countries that did not want to see China win more medals, said that it was impossible that Rahimov was clean. But not China. China is very careful never to make these accusations and the Chinese never said a word since Rahimov had tested clean.
A few years later, The president of the Weightlifting Federation, Tamas Ajan, a Hungarian, was charged and convicted of mass corruption, accepting millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the true blood samples of Eastern European athletes. He was deposed and now the fight to uncover the rest of the cheats is finally taking shape. Should there be enough evidence to convict Rahimov, he will lose his gold medal and Lu Xiaojun will become a double Olympic Champion. If the Olympics in Tokyo were to take place this year, Lu is expected to contend for his third Olympic Gold Medal, at an unheard of 37 years of age! The Chinese father of two won the last two world championships in 2018 and 2019 (2020 was called off due to COVID). In the latter, he created the current world records in both the clean and jerk and the total while fighting off an in-competition back injury.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
A few years later, The president of the Weightlifting Federation, Tamas Ajan, a Hungarian, was charged and convicted of mass corruption, accepting millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the true blood samples of Eastern European athletes. He was deposed and now the fight to uncover the rest of the cheats is finally taking shape. Should there be enough evidence to convict Rahimov, he will lose his gold medal and Lu Xiaojun will become a double Olympic Champion. If the Olympics in Tokyo were to take place this year, Lu is expected to contend for his third Olympic Gold Medal, at an unheard of 37 years of age! The Chinese father of two won the last two world championships in 2018 and 2019 (2020 was called off due to COVID). In the latter, he created the current world records in both the clean and jerk and the total while fighting off an in-competition back injury.
Olympic weightlifting champion charged with swapping urine samples
Associated Press Tue, January 19, 2021, 7:15 AM
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
Just let me see Sun Yang in the Olympics pleaseFinally, this has happened. At the 2016 Olympics, Nijat Rahimov of "Kazakhstan" (in parenthesis because he's switched his nationality all over the place and the Kazakhs are known for buying weightlifters from China, Russia, etc...) won the 77kg weightlifting gold medal. He was 15kg behind than 2012 Olympic Champion Lu Xiaojun in the snatch but defeated Lu by lower bodyweight as he clean and jerked 214kg, which is a whopping 4kg over the 15 year old standing World record. Lu Xiaojun's second Olympic gold became silver. Mohammed Ehab of Egypt won bronze, and Egypt immediately accused Rahimov of being a drug cheat, saying there was no way an adult professional lifter could improve that much that quickly (he was pinned by 211kg the year before). But there were better reasons. Nijat Rahimov was an Azeri lifter and had already been sanctioned for illegal substance use on team Azerbaijan. As a matter of fact, the Azeri team had suffered back-to-back team bans for drug use. And Rahimov was then transferred to Kazakhstan, a country that has had to return every Olympic medal in weightlifting since 2008 due to retrospective testing and is also serving a drug-related team ban. Kazakhstan has been found guilty of over 130 drug infractions for the weightlifters in its country. And under these circumstances, many in the weightlifting world, even those countries that did not want to see China win more medals, said that it was impossible that Rahimov was clean. But not China. China is very careful never to make these accusations and the Chinese never said a word since Rahimov had tested clean.
A few years later, The president of the Weightlifting Federation, Tamas Ajan, a Hungarian, was charged and convicted of mass corruption, accepting millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the true blood samples of Eastern European athletes. He was deposed and now the fight to uncover the rest of the cheats is finally taking shape. Should there be enough evidence to convict Rahimov, he will lose his gold medal and Lu Xiaojun will become a double Olympic Champion. If the Olympics in Tokyo were to take place this year, Lu is expected to contend for his third Olympic Gold Medal, at an unheard of 37 years of age! The Chinese father of two won the last two world championships in 2018 and 2019 (2020 was called off due to COVID). In the latter, he created the current world records in both the clean and jerk and the total while fighting off an in-competition back injury.
Olympic weightlifting champion charged with swapping urine samples
Associated Press Tue, January 19, 2021, 7:15 AM
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
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They might have to if not enough people around the world get vaccinated before the summer games arrive.
HIghly doubt even enough for Beijing olympics
What is going on in America? Why is such a big deal of playing the national anthem before the game?
Apperently one owner has stopped it. And this caused Ted Cruz to blow a fuse. In Europe, we find have the Anthem for every game. Only internationals where we play another country. And even then, we play both national anthem out of respect.
So I don't really understand the U.S. psyche in this. But I do know what make Ted Cruz tick. And if anything that can annoy him, I'm all for it.
Apperently one owner has stopped it. And this caused Ted Cruz to blow a fuse. In Europe, we find have the Anthem for every game. Only internationals where we play another country. And even then, we play both national anthem out of respect.
So I don't really understand the U.S. psyche in this. But I do know what make Ted Cruz tick. And if anything that can annoy him, I'm all for it.
郑妮娜力 (Zheng Ninali) a former Canadian Athlete officially switched allegiance to China.
An earlier report in 2017: Nina Schultz participated the 13th Chinese National Games (全国运动会)
"I came here not out of a sudden impulse, but because I always wanted to fulfill my grandmother's dream of competing in the Olympics," said Schultz in quite fluent Chinese.
She is currently applying for Chinese citizenship in order to be able to represent China in the Olympics.
"I want to participate in the 2020 Games to honor my grandma, ideally with a gold medal," added Schultz, who just flew to China on 31 August.
We will see her wearing red and yellow in Tokyo soon.
Some background:
She was born in 1998 in Canada to a Chinese mother who emigranted to Canada in the 1990s. She was in the process for Chinese citizenship in 2017 at the age 18/19 depending birth date. This indicates that she might always retained her legal option of claiming her Chinese citizenship (Chinese nationality law allows a person born abroad and automatically acquires foreign citizenship to claim Chinese citizenship before age 18). This is also indicated by her saying underlined above and the fact of participating China's National games.
Her maternal grandmother is 郑凤荣 (Zheng Fengrong) from whom she took her Chinese family name. Zheng is the world high jump record maker in 1955.
Nina is her English name which is transcribed to 妮娜. The interesting thing is the last Chinese character 力 (li) in her name that means power/force/effort. It is not to be confused with 李 (li) because her maternal grandfather is 段 (Duan) and her father is Schultz, so li is not a name representing any family tradition. This is also evidenced by the fact that She has tattoo "尽力" (upmost effort).
An earlier report in 2017: Nina Schultz participated the 13th Chinese National Games (全国运动会)
"I came here not out of a sudden impulse, but because I always wanted to fulfill my grandmother's dream of competing in the Olympics," said Schultz in quite fluent Chinese.
She is currently applying for Chinese citizenship in order to be able to represent China in the Olympics.
"I want to participate in the 2020 Games to honor my grandma, ideally with a gold medal," added Schultz, who just flew to China on 31 August.
We will see her wearing red and yellow in Tokyo soon.
Some background:
She was born in 1998 in Canada to a Chinese mother who emigranted to Canada in the 1990s. She was in the process for Chinese citizenship in 2017 at the age 18/19 depending birth date. This indicates that she might always retained her legal option of claiming her Chinese citizenship (Chinese nationality law allows a person born abroad and automatically acquires foreign citizenship to claim Chinese citizenship before age 18). This is also indicated by her saying underlined above and the fact of participating China's National games.
Her maternal grandmother is 郑凤荣 (Zheng Fengrong) from whom she took her Chinese family name. Zheng is the world high jump record maker in 1955.
Nina is her English name which is transcribed to 妮娜. The interesting thing is the last Chinese character 力 (li) in her name that means power/force/effort. It is not to be confused with 李 (li) because her maternal grandfather is 段 (Duan) and her father is Schultz, so li is not a name representing any family tradition. This is also evidenced by the fact that She has tattoo "尽力" (upmost effort).